Little India / Farrer Park: Bohemian enclave
This is the first of a four-part series on the property scene in or around colorful spots of Singapore. This week, we feature Little India Bored women, reclining languorously on moth-eaten couches, blowing slow swirls of smoke into the fierce sunshine. Quaint shophouses, with deceptively quiet charm, that open their back doors to toy shops … Read more
Bugis Street: Old district a hive of activity
The Bras Basah-Bugis hub didn’t happen by chance; it was painstaking planning It didn’t seem that long ago that Bugis Street was home to a colourful assortment of street hawkers, showy transvestites and gawking Western tourists instead of the pasar malam maze it is today. For its new campus, Lasalle deliberately chose an architectural design … Read more
Hong Kong, Singapore have top judiciary
REGIONAL financial centres Hong Kong and Singapore have the best judicial systems in Asia, with Indonesia and Vietnam the worst, a survey of expatriate business executives showed. The judiciary ‘is one of Indonesia’s weakest and most controversial institutions, and many consider the poor enforcement of laws to be the country’s number one problem,’ said the … Read more
